Opening The Star: Three Responses to the New Translation of Franz Rosenzweig’s "The Star of Redemption"

Introduction

This chapbook is a collection of papers that were presented in a Panel Discussion at the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies to celebrate the new translation of Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption. At the “Opening of the Star” event, the translator Barbara E. Galli and the authors of two introductory pieces included with the translation, Elliott R. Wolfson and Michael Oppenheim, offered brief tributes to Rosenzweig’s book.

The papers in the chapbook are entitled: “Translation and the Labour-of-the-Heart” by Elliot R. Wolfson; “A Note on Temptation” by Michael Oppenheim; and “Rosenzweig’s All, Kabbalistically Reflected” by Barbara E. Galli.